The Digital Journal reports a 3-year-old had a fun birthday celebration with relatives and friends, gifts and pizza on March 13 at Caesarland pizzeria. Everyone left about 7 p.m.; the manager of the restaurant noticed the little boy alone around 9 p.m. (no accounting for those 2 hours after the family left).

The police were called and they took the child to headquarters and called Child Protective Services. They took the boy and he was temporarily placed into foster care.

Warren Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer said, "It’s pretty bizarre. … There were about 20 people that were there at the party, including the mother and father, the grandmother, and some relatives and friends. … The father is indicating… that he thought that the mother had picked up the three-year-old. They’re separated, but they live in the same apartment complex. The mother is telling us that she thought that the father or grandmother had taken the three-year-old home. … How can they forget or assume that the other parent for two days has their son? I mean, there’s no excuse for this."

The boy remains in foster care.